Laura Crain

I've been a librarian at Saint Michael's since 1996. Before coming to Vermont, I was a librarian at Indiana University, and a public librarian at urban libraries in Indianapolis, Indiana and Columbus, Ohio.

I am responsible for collection management and acquisitions at the Library. I am particularly interested in usage-driven and patron-driven collection development. I am currently working on an ongoing project to transform library student jobs into high impact practices.

"Reality is What You Make It: Collection Management in Two Vermont Academic Libraries" with Ben Johnson. Vermont Library Conference, 25 May 2010, Colchester, VT. Conference Presentation.

Interests:

In my free time I spend time in the sun, listen to country music, raise two sons with my wife Sandra and walk in the woods with our labradoodle and bichon frise.

I volunteer at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility helping to facilitate the Storybook project (a project of the Lund Family Center's Kids-a-Part program): incarcerated moms select children's books and make recordings of themselves reading the books aloud. The books and the recordings are sent as gifts to their children.

I am currently reading Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran and Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay.